Week Four, Assignment Two

This week, my research conducted was more or less the same as the previous week; however, instead of searching for e-Books, I searched for peer reviewed journals. My search tactics where continuing to use the "AND" and the "*" search functions to aid me in narrowing down my results to be more driven towards my interests. I performed my search with "Medical Informatics" AND "*Improvement" AND "Health*. One thing I did take note of while searching for peer reviewed journals, was that the results were on the subject all around the world. Since every country
has different healthcare structures, I had to redo my search with the above keywords and the addition of United States. The business processes I imagine with differ greatly in other countries, so this was important to specify.
Interestingly enough, I found an article that started off almost Anti-Medical Informatics, which I thought was pretty interesting. Essentially, it uncovered a lot of Health Information Technology that has been implemented simply just to "keep with the times" and actually did not have any added value, and sometimes caused additionally costs and rework. While my focus has been on Medical Informatics to improve the healthcare experience, I turning away from the fact that, a value added process implemented along side with Health Information Technology is essentially to allowing a system to run smoothly.Medical Informatics is not a stand alone fix to any process.